Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We may have hit paydirt , Chief , ’ said the agent tersely . |
| 2 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 3 | Perhaps , what is more common is that , we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their few minutes . |
| 4 | We may have had bean sprouts with noodles . |
| 5 | We may have had gangrene , amputations , even paralysis but , too young to see any futility , we were only too glad to be alive . |
| 6 | We should have said price/performance ) . |
| 7 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |
| 8 | We should have had champagne . |
| 9 | er because they actually , I mean , the week , the week in Scotland we should have got overtime for that , but we have n't |
| 10 | The OpenVMS environment , along with NAS software , OSF/1 and Microsoft Windows NT , are to form the basis of DEC 's strategy over the coming decade and beyond , though as DEC UK chairman , Geoff Shingles reflected , ‘ we should have put VMS into the open domain in the eighties . ’ |
| 11 | GUIL : We must have gone north , of course . |
| 12 | And I mean I put an asterisk down there to say that 's what I thought was going to come out quite heavily simply because this is is the case on these courses , you know the people that we get on these courses every single one of these that we 've had , and we must have had coming up to what over ten now , every single one we 've had people that the most the majority of people have had team work very high on the score . |
| 13 | Then more briskly , ‘ Quick , we 'll have lost temperature . |
| 14 | I was about to say , If Eva and Dad get married you 'll be my brother and we 'll have committed incest , but I managed to shut my trap . |
| 15 | Our safety regulations er dictate that they be a certain distance from the crowd , so that if anything did go wrong , the aircraft would be able to er get out of the way , but no , there is not going to be any danger at all , they 'll make their approaches to the base as if they were attacking , and then we 'll have simulated ground bursts , a large fire as it were , on the ground , it will be going off , providing the sound effects for it , but it 's going to be just a great thing to sit and watch . |
| 16 | ‘ We might have made love , but that 's as far as it goes . |
| 17 | For them , we might have quoted No. 14 on Shona 's quiz – S.A.Y.S.F. – Seek and you shall find . |
| 18 | Going home later in the afternoon , Matthew said , " Unfortunately I 'm going out this evening , otherwise we might have had dinner together . " |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm glad he was n't , ’ said the male , ‘ or else we might have had trouble . ’ |
| 20 | On the other hand , we might have backed research aimed at understanding why some materials are insulators and why for example , adding small quantities of certain impurities to these materials has a dramatic effect on their conductivity . |
| 21 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |
| 22 | " I wish things had been different so that we could have made love just once . |
| 23 | So in fact , we could have caused chaos on Oxpens Road by parking the bus on double yellow lines and making a big thing of getting handicapped children out , in and out of a specialised vehicle , but we , we actually prefer not to do that , and we go on the car park each week , and we pay the same fee as anybody else fee , pays because er we feel that that 's the right and proper place for us to be and the children to be , as they 're just ordinary members of the community with some special needs . |
| 24 | I invite the student of the air war to compute Harris 's achievements with 1,625 aircraft and consider how much sooner we could have achieved victory in Europe had he the support of the promised 3,500 aircraft , and the entire Chiefs-of-Staff Committee . |
| 25 | ‘ We could have said woodland instead of forest but that would have conveyed the idea of something small . |
| 26 | If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton . |
| 27 | We could have left daddy . |
| 28 | Ca , can I just do that then , with , with , yes , excuse me Kevin , I think we we voiced that one , we can see there 's , there a lot , will obviously be increased er er traffic , er from the site , er and it it 's clear that that the bigger the houses the more likely there is we 'd have increased traffic . |
| 29 | We 'd have put remix two on it . |
| 30 | ‘ Otherwise we would have given way to the big guy with the muscle to push and not to Joe Public . |